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About 25 minutes after Armstrong emerges from the LM hatch, Astronaut Aldrin will pass an electrically powered Hasselblad still camera down a nylon conveyor (similar to a clothesline on pulleys), and then back down the ladder himself. The astronauts will move next to the opened storage area, called MESA, for Modularized Equipment Storage Assembly. Armstrong will detach the TV camera and place it on a stand about 30 ft. from the LM to provide a panoramic view of the surface activities. While Aldrin is setting up a solar wind experiment, consisting of a 1-ft. by 4-ft. aluminum-foil...
...daily operation, the Times's four downtown-news sections are trucked in mat form or transmitted by computer-typesetter to the suburban edition's new $7 000,000 plant in Costa Mesa. There, Managing Editor Ted Weegar, former assistant managing editor of the metropolitan edition, tears the pages apart and remakes them as he sees fit. Orange County stories are scattered throughout the entire newspaper. National and world news can be replaced on page 1 and in the rest of the first section, but only if an Orange County story deserves the prominence. No attempt will be made...
Making Sense. The Times plans to spend $9,500,000 a year on its satellite edition. A good portion of this will be spent on remaking about 30% of the paper each day in Costa Mesa- al though the staff operates with an un for the derstanding sake of that it will remaking. not The remake aim is just to give suburbanites and exurbamtes the feeling that they are reading a world-minded paper with a home-town emphasis...
...Phoenix, despite a plea of insanity, Accused Mass Murderer Robert Benjamin Smith, 19, was found guilty and now faces the gas chamber. Smith is the high school student who shot to death four women and a child in a Mesa, Ariz., beauty parlor, after getting them to lie down, heads to the center, like spokes of a wheel (TIME, Nov. 18). When police arrived only moments after the killings, Smith announced laconically: "I wanted to get known, just wanted to get myself a name." Defense psychiatrists testified that Smith could not have known right from wrong. "For him," said...
...America Response. Minutes after the attack started, nearly every American officer was either wounded or dead. Among the dead was the battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Terry de la Mesa Allen Jr., 38, whose father had commanded the Big Red One in its World War II drive from Tunisia to Sicily. At a temporary base camp one mile away, the battalion operations officer heard the firefight and hesitated not a moment. With the agility that made him an All-America end at West Point in 1954, Major Donald W. Holleder, 33, raced toward the furious action and rallied a group...